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Definition: ENS |
ENSNoun1. Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence. 2. Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings. |
Date "ENS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1628. (references) |
Etymology: Ens \Ens\, noun. [Latin expression, ens, entis, thing. See Entity.]. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ENS | Danish | Det europaeiske Nationalregnskabssystem | Economics |
ENS | English | Enterprise Network Services | N/A |
| ENS 1995 | Danish | Det europæiske nationalregnskabssystem 1995 | European Union, Economics |
| ENSIQ | English | ENS - Information Query, "ENS IQ" | Computer - (Banyan, VINES, ENS) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deity | God, Lord, Jehovah, Jahweh, Allah; The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, the Prime Mover; Ens Entium; Author of all things, Creator of all things; Author of our being; Cosmoplast; El; The Infinite, The Eternal; The All-powerful, The All-wise, The All-merciful, The All-holy. |
Existence | Phrase: ens rationis; ergo sum cogito: "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?". |
Noun: existence, being,Noun: existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence. | |
Inexistence | Phrase: non ens. |
Intellect | Phrase: ens rationis; frons est animi janua; locos y ninos dicen la verdad; mens sola loco non exulat; " my mind is my kingdom "; " stern men with empires in their brains "; " the mind, the music breathing from her face "; " thou living ray of intellectual Fire ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ENS |
| Etymologies containing "ENS": Entity. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ENS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (we), Swedish (even, in line with each other, your). |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | "De-Briefing Session -- After returning from strikes on enemy targets in the Wonsan area, these three Navy pilots on the aircraft carrier USS Antietam go into a de-briefing session, and check themselves on targets hit and damaged. Left to right: Ens. Robert L. Thomas, ... Lt(jg) Robert F. Baker ... and Ens. Howard E. Foabn." (last name given is unclear) Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 12 January 1952. Note pilots' flight suits and life vests with attached survival equipment. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, becomes the home for WAVES in training. Here, midshipmen take on heavy schedule to learn the duties of an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Officers on parade. Ens. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Worker Rights | Colombia | According to the ENS, a total of 184 union activists were killed during the year. (references) |
Colombia | The ENS also reported that 23 unionists survived attempts on their lives, 203 were threatened with death, 37 were kidnaped, 12 disappeared, and 56 were forcibly displaced. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ENS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "ENS" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 88.89% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ENS": ens rationis ♦ non ens. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ENS": non-ens. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ens | 88 |
cachan ens | 14 |
ens lexus toyota | 7 |
ens toyota | 6 |
ens lyon | 5 |
ens karl porcelain | 4 |
ens ulm | 4 |
ens karl | 3 |
ens msp opsandinfra.ch.etn.com | 3 |
ens lyon.fr | 3 |
ens news.com | 3 |
0246b compuhq enhance ens justdeals mint non pulled rebuilt refurb refurbished remanufactured | 3 |
compaq ens | 3 |
ens land | 3 |
de del ens logotipo morelos | 3 |
ens mag.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ENS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | nature d'une maladie (ens morbi). (various references) | |
German | Ens morbi (ens morbi). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ensay.(various references) | |
Thai | การมีตัวตน (ทางปรัชญาป. (various references) | |
Turkish | varolma (corporeity, entia), soyut varlık kavramı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ENS": ensample, ensamples, ensanguine, ensanguined, ensanguines, ensanguining, ensconce, ensconced, ensconces, ensconcing, enscroll, enscrolled, enscrolling, enscrolls, ensemble, ensembles, enserf, enserfed, enserfing, enserfment, enserfments, enserfs, ensheath, ensheathe, ensheathed, ensheathes, ensheathing, ensheaths, enshrine, enshrined, enshrinee, enshrinees, enshrinement, enshrinements, enshrines, enshrining, enshroud, enshrouded, enshrouding, enshrouds, ensiform, ensign, ensigncies, ensigncy, ensigns, ensilage, ensilaged, ensilages, ensilaging, ensile, ensiled. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ENS": abdomens, abducens, acetaminophens, acrogens, acumens, agglutinogens, agnomens, albumens, aliens, allergens, alloantigens, amens, amidogens, amylogens, androgens, anticarcinogens, antiestrogens, antigens, arpens, aspens, avens, awakens, baleens, barrens, battens, bedarkens, bedeafens, bedizens, bemaddens, bens, bescreens, betokens, biogens, bitumens, blackens, boreens, brackens, brazens, breakevens, brens, brightens, broadens, buckeens, bullpens, burdens, burthens, canteens, carageens, carcinogens, careens, carrageens. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ENS": alpenstock, alpenstocks, amanuenses, amanuensis, anenst, angiotensin, angiotensins, anticensorship, antihypertensive, antihypertensives, antisense, apprehensible, apprehensibly, apprehension, apprehensions, apprehensive, apprehensively, apprehensiveness, apprehensivenesses, ascension, ascensional, ascensions, ascensive, avenses, bimensal, biosensor, biosensors, burdensome, cense, censed, censer, censers, censes, censing, censor, censored, censorial, censoring, censorious, censoriously, censoriousness, censoriousnesses, censors, censorship, censorships, censual, censurable, censure, censured, censurer, censurers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sen. | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-s" | |
-1 letter: en, es, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-s" | |
+1 letter: anes, bens, dens, ends, engs, eons, erns, fens, gens, hens, kens, lens, nebs, ness, nest, nets, news, noes, nose, ones, pens, sane, seen, send, sene, sent, sewn, sine, sned, snye, sone, syne, tens, wens, yens. | |
+2 letters: acnes, aeons, amens, anise, ansae, antes, ashen, aspen, avens, banes, beans, bends, benes, bents, bines, bones, brens, canes, cense, cents, cines, cones, deans, denes, dense, dents, dines, dunes, dynes, earns, ebons, elans, enols, enows, ensky, ensue, eosin, ernes, etnas, evens, exons, fanes, fends, ferns, fines, genes, gents, genus, glens, hanse, hents, herns, hones, hosen, inset, janes, jeans, jones, kanes, keens, kenos, kerns, kines, knees, lanes, leans, lends, lenes, lenis, lenos, lense, liens, lines, lunes, manes, manse, means, mends, mensa, mense, menus, mesne, meson, miens, mines, nabes, names, napes, nares, nates, naves, neaps, nears, neats, necks, needs, neems, neeps, negus, neifs, neist, nemas, nenes, neons, nerds, nerts, nests, netts, neuks, neums, neves, nevus, newsy, newts, nexus, nides, nines, nisei, nites, nixes, nodes, noels, noise, nomes, nones, noose, nosed, noses, nosey, notes, nudes, nukes, nurse, omens, onces, onset, opens, ovens, owsen, panes, peans, peens, peins, pends, penes, penis, peons, pines, pones, reins, rends, rents, resin, rinse, risen, runes, saned, saner, sanes, scena, scend, scene, scent, scone, sedan, segni, segno, seine, semen, sends, sengi, senna, senor, sensa, sense, sente, senti, serin, seton, seven, sewan, sheen, shend, shent, shewn, shine, shone, since, sines, sinew, singe, siren, skean, skeen, skein, skene, snake, snare, sneak, sneap, sneck, sneds, sneer, snell, snide, snipe, snore, snyes, sonde, sones, spean, spend, spent, spine, stane, stein, steno, stern, stone, swine, syren, teens, tends, tense, tents, terns, thens, tines, tones, tunes, tynes, unset, unsew, unsex, usnea, vanes, veins, vends, vents, vines, wanes, weans, weens, wends, whens, wines, wrens, yeans, zeins, zones. | |
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